37 The Mystery of the Two Toed Pigeon by Marc Brandel

Author:Marc Brandel [Brandel, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Visitors from the East

He switched it on. Beep-beep-beep. The sound came out of the tracker at once. It had picked up the signal from the electronic beeper that Bob had magnetically fastened under the back of the van.

Jupe swiveled the antenna, aiming south.

Beep-beep-beep. It was a little louder now.

“They’re heading toward the coast,” Jupe said. “Let’s go after them.”

Pete already had the three bicycles outside the gate. Jupe strapped the tracker to the handlebars of his bike. They mounted and rode off.

Jupe rode with one hand. With the other he could aim the antenna on the tracker to the left or right or straight ahead. By listening to the beeps grow louder or fainter, he could tell which way the van had turned.

The beeper’s signal would reach them as long as they stayed within a mile of it. They could follow the van on their bicycles with no danger of being seen.

Jupe didn’t think they’d have any trouble keeping up with it. He remembered how faltering the van’s engine had sounded as it ground up the hill to the Seahorse Diner.

As he pedaled along, tracking the beeps with the antenna, the First Investigator just hoped the van wasn’t going too far.

He didn’t mind bicycling, and he knew the exercise was good for him — it would help work off that big breakfast this morning — but he did hope the van wasn’t headed for San Francisco or anything like that.

Pearl onions, he thought. Kyoto and the interpreter must have thought he was really dumb if they expected him to believe that. But what were the Japanese going to such lengths to hide?

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